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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 19:37:07 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: memcpy failure
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>>>>> On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:21:59 -0600, Mario Smarduch <cms063@email.mot.com> said:

  Mario> I'm referring to page faults and what handle_exception() does
  Mario> - regs->r8 = -EFAULT

In the case of memcpy(), there are no exception regions ("handlers"),
so handle_exception() won't do anything.  copy_user() is different
that way.

	--david